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Putin’s attempt to pacify the North Caucuses by installing the brutal Ramzan Kadyrov as Head of the Chechen Republic has brought little more than a fragile, de facto truce that has left Russia as vulnerable as ever to terrorism.
With a truce between the government and the opposition shattered only hours after it came into effect, and with dozens of people reported killed in recent days, any hope for an end to the country’s deepening civil disorder appears to be fading fast.
Beyond the Gaza CeasefireTEL AVIV – Finally, the long-sought truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has become a reality.
“A truce would weaken Palestinian President Abu Mazen,” officials claimed, as if the construction of new Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the refusal to dismantle previous illegal ones had not already weakened him.
The launch of five Qassam rockets into Israel five days after the signing of the truce suggests its precariousness.
Opponents of the truce predict, – indeed, wish – that it will be short-lived.
To be sure, if this new truce is merely technical, if efforts are not made to stabilize and consolidate it, it could become just one another in a long string of bitter episodes.
But all who had feared a “great Israeli offensive” in Gaza should make every effort to strengthen the truce and create a climate for relaxing tensions that could, with time, lead to a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority.
Future workers from Gaza, having a moral right to earn their living in Israel, will become natural supporters of the maintenance of the truce.
So this truce must be seen not as a piece of paper with some legal significance, but as a young plant that needs to be tended to, watered, nursed, and protected, so that it grows into a strong and robust tree that cannot be uprooted with an occasional Qassam rocket or a stray grenade.
Then came the truce, on July 25: Trump and Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, agreed to work jointly on an agenda of free trade and World Trade Organization reform.
Hamas rejects any peace with Israel, and is at best prepared to agree to a temporary truce.
An initial truce, by means of international mediation, can lead to a monitored long-term truce and reconstruction in Gaza.
In that case, we would have to make do with organizing a truce until the next crisis.
When multiple ceasefire agreements fail in South Sudan and eastern Ukraine, or a humanitarian truce in Yemen collapses within hours, one or more of the parties is said to lack “credible commitment.”
If the truce agreed by Europe and the US holds, the US will be doing battle mainly with China, rather than the world (of course, the trade conflict with Canada and Mexico will continue to simmer, given US demands that neither country can or should accept).
Even if the United States and China agree to extend their current trade-war truce beyond the first half of March, the potential for continued friction will remain.
In particular, the size of China and America’s combined carbon footprint means that the recent bilateral trade truce is crucial to the world’s chances of tackling the existential threat posed by global warming.
More than 100 women’s organizations from Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen quickly joined the appeal with a joint statement advocating a broad COVID-19 truce, which could form the basis for a lasting peace.
When face to face with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in June, Trump declared a truce in his “trade war” with China.
By the end of the year, however, all of these risks had subsided: the Fed executed a dovish U-turn, the US-China trade war moved toward a ceasefire, oil prices fell, and Italy resolved its fiscal clash with the European Commission in a fairly innocuous truce.
If we want the fragile truce in Libya to last, we need to support the arms embargo.
A truce was formalized in the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, signed on March 5, 1931.
Now that the two sides have agreed to a truce in the form of a “phase one” trade deal, there is hope that the trade prognosis will improve.
Consequently, the political calculus of both countries is coming into closer alignment, with each looking for some face-saving truce.
Trade truce or not, a protracted economic struggle between the US and China has already begun.
After China offered major concessions in the last round of talks in May, the US threatened to impose still more tariffs on Chinese exports; and even with the new truce, existing tariffs remain in place.
This will require a United Nations peacekeeping mission that – robustly if necessary – maintains the truce between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists and oversees the removal of heavy arms from Eastern Ukraine.
Although the US has a large trade deficit with China, that is not the reason why it is imposing high tariffs on imports from China and threatening to increase them further after the end of the current 90-day truce on March 1.
The bad news is that it represents just another temporary truce amid a much larger strategic rivalry encompassing trade, technology, investment, currency, and geopolitical issues.
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